All Things ABB Blog

Test Stands: Part One

June 20, 2017

Quality Assurance and Research and Development B&D Technologies typically receives two types of requests for test stands. The first request is a way to test quality, whether it is a repair or new product about to go the...

Solutions by B&D– AB Remote I/O Universal Drive ...

May 4, 2017

Introduction Remote I/O (RIO) has been a defacto communications protocol for Allen Bradley (Rockwell) PLCs and automation products for many years. My first network with RIO was in 1995. Many B&D Technologies Engineers and integration partners have utilized...

No More Baldor ACB530 VFD

April 6, 2017

Challenge With the new Baldor 501 catalog, some users will notice that the Baldor General Purpose drive, the ACB530, is no longer included. This is because ABB is moving all the drives from the Baldor motor group to...

Murky Waters: Designing Tanks for the Water Industry

March 1, 2017

Application An engineering firm had an outrageous specification for a municipal water plant drive system. The firm’s contractor worked with us to refine the specification to more practical terms and the end result turned out to be the...

Hey Mr. Wizard! Field Weakening Wizard Challenges on a ...

February 1, 2017

The ABB DCS800 came out with an amazing tool added to their already popular software, DriveWindow Lite. The commissioning wizard steps the user through the paces of armature tuning, field tuning, speed feedback, speed controller and field weakening....

Like creating Maintenance Nightmares? Then Keep Using D ...

December 27, 2016

Dodge (ABB’s power transmission company) developed the motorized torque arm reducer with maintenance in mind. There is a prevailing belief that leaving the belt drives on bulk handling conveyors create an intentional weak spot on the system to...

Like Creating Maintenance Nightmares? Then Keep Using D ...

December 22, 2016

B&D's competitor quoted a typical shaft mount drive assembly. The customer wanted to eliminate any unnecessary conveyor components as well as any potential safety guarding. B&D Technologies provided them with a motorized torque design so that v-belt drive,...

DC Drives: Line Reactors or Isolation Transformers

December 13, 2016

This is a frequently asked question on every DC drive application the Applications Engineering Group (AEG) does: What happens in the Drive? For armature (DCS800) and field (DCF800) supply drives, when thyristor power converters operate, the line voltage...

Broken Coupling on Tacho Generator

December 2, 2016

http://new.abb.com/drives/dc/dcs800-s We had a tricky technical question come through the AEG (Applications Engineering Group) last week. The customer (fairly adept with DCS800s) could not get past base speed on a tach feedback DCS800. The motor nameplate had a...

The Wonderful and Exciting World of ABB

December 1, 2016

Welcome to the B&D Technologies Applications Engineering Group’s (AEG) blog about all things ABB. This blog comes from the years of experience and partnership with ABB. We have the distinction of being the first ABB Authorized Value Provider...